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Tropical Cyclones Summary

Summary: Tropical Cyclones A Tropical Cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a  closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms. Tropical Cyclones are named with people’s names. These names are alphabetically ordered, according to when they occur, its location and strength for example, here is the list of 2017´s Tropical Cyclones: Adrian, Beatriz, Calvin, Dora, Eugene, Fernanda, Greg, Hilary, Irwin, Jova, Kenneth, Lidia, Max, Norma, Otis, Pilar, Ramon, Selma, Todd, Veronica, Wiley, Xina, York and Zelda. Tropical Cyclones used warm air as fuel, this is why they only form in warm ocean waters near the equator. This warm air rises upward from near the surface, there is less air left near the surface. causing an area of lower air pressure. So, air from surrounding areas with higher air pressure pushes into the low pressure area, so the warm air continue rising and cool off, and the water in

Tiger in the Menangerie Questionaire

1. WILD: nature, survival, freedom, natural environment, wild animals, out of control, danger. CIVILIZATION: rules/laws, man, menangerie, taming of animals, money/wealth, control, safety. 2. Summary of the story This poem is about a tiger that was in a menangerie and no one knew how he entered there. The tigers stripes and the bars of the cage are personified. The tiger was free, so everyone was in danger and afraid. 3. The first stanza begins with the answer to a question, here we get to know that nodoby knew how the tiger got there: "No one could say...". They only knew that it happened very fast, we know this througth the line "too flash, too blue", which is a metaphor. People didnt realized about it becuase it didnt seem real at all. 4. In the second and third stanza starts describing the tiger´s cage. At nigth, the bars of the cage and the tiger begin to blend together since they look so alike that the menangerie, or the people imagine the bars

En vez de un punto, pongamos una coma.

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Vimos un cortometraje llamado " En el lado de la vida " que se trata sobre la donación de órganos y después, leímos un texto extraído de "Ética para Amador" Capitulo " Ponte en su lugar " de Fernando Savater. Tabaje con Amparo y Paloma Las semejanzas entre “El lado de la vida” y “Ponte en su lugar” son que ambos te dejan un mensaje en el cual te hacen poner en el lugar del otro y pensar en lo que esa persona esta pasando. Por ejemplo en “El lado de la vida” la mama al principio no esta muy segura de donar los órganos de su hija, pero al ver la situación de la chica que necesitaba un transplante, se puso en su lugar y accedió a que su hija se convierta en donante. Otra de las cosas que se pueden ver es que en “Ponte en su lugar” dice que no importa como sea uno, si no que todos somos humanos y somos diferentes pero al mismo tiempo iguales. En el video podemos ver que la chica que necesita el transplante tiene el color de piel negro, pero la mama de la chi